What do you wish someone had told you when you were a first-year lawyer?

Last week, Dallas-based lawyer career coach Cordell Parvin (who practiced law for 36 years) asked and answered this question at his eponymous blog: What do I wish someone had told me when I was a first year lawyer?

Parvin came up with a list of 25 pieces of advice (and later, 15 more) that he wishes he had heard earlier in his career. He did modify that list to note new technologies that weren’t around when he started practicing. Two items from his list: